The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-01

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL


IT'S thought and digestion that
make books serviccablc. aud give
health and vigor to the mind.
He who studies nature, and denies
God, is rs a man who reads book and
denies that it had an author. Chass-
ming.
Lincoln Hall, built by Roswell
Smith, of the Coasstry, at cost OF
s25. 200, for Berea College, was dcdi-
Gated at its recent commencement
Lord. take my heart for can not
give it; and when Thou hast il oh,
keep it, for can not keep 1t for Thecs
and save me in spite Of myself. for
Jesus Christ's sake. Amen,--FeHcJoa's
Prayer.
Life in every shape should be pre-
cious. for the same reason that thcTurks
carefully collect every scrap OF paper
that comes in their way, because tho
name of God may be written upon it,
Jean Paul Richter.
The authorities at the University
of Berlin will have nothing to do with
idle students. No fewer than l0S have
Just been struck of the roll for lack
of diligence. Among the number arc
forty-eight foreigners.
A foretaste.
We, gazing through the cloud and mis<
The peariy gates behold;
The jasper and the amethyst
And streets of shining solds
Until, without, we yet begin
The joyful song they chant within.
Indianapolis JonTndk
Out of fifty-six changes in the re-
vised New Testament twenty-five ro-
turned to the early rcnderings Of
Wyckliffc. whose first translation Of
the Bible into English is tho more re-
markable as he was not a Hebrew or
Greek scholar. but made his transla-
ton from the Vulgate, or Latin YER
sion of Jerome. Public Opinion.
Probably not even savagcs would
be found to cherish us impartial a tho
DRY concerning the shape Of the earth
rs that of Yankee schoolmaster. 'ls
| the earth round or flatp' was asked by
his examiners ..Some teach Ii $ round.
and some fiat" he answered. For
my part, I've no prcjudiccs ! teach
round or fiat, as the parents prefer. -
United Presbyterian.
lit is said that there are $1,000 ma
tive converts employed and paid as
| evangelists to their own countrymen
in the foreign missionary field, and
$500 are ordained pastors Of native
congregations This does not include
| the vast number who work on the prin-
ciple Of voluntaryism, aud thousands
of teachers and professors In secular
teaching in schools and colleges.
Friends of Princeton College have
given the money for four or five fellow
ships for the next college ycarl The
college has already half a dozen per-
manent fellowships. and proposes, II
practicable, to open them to the gradu-
ates of any approved college in Amer
lea. Holders of fcllowships must live
at Princeton through the academic
| year, and confine their studies wholly
to the department which they havo
| chosen.
There appeared years ago little
allegory which touchingly told how
Misery remains so persistently in this
world. Death, in establishing his
worldwide sovereignty, involved all
other forces in ruin. Fame, Wealth,
Pleasure-each in turn was vanished
to the realm OF Oblivion. But all at
tempts to remove Misery from her
abode among the children Of men were
vain; and in the end Death was forced
to make compact with her that he
would not come to take her away till
she should have called for him thrca
times. And Misery has never called. =
I,adidndD0lis Journal.